Kluge Fellowships

2008-09 Class of Kluge Fellows Selected

In its sixth full year of operation, the John W. Kluge Center continues
to attract the world’s brightest minds to the Library of Congress where they
pursue humanistic and social science research making use of the Library's
large, varied collections and expert staff. While in residence, they also
have the opportunity to interact with the Washington, DC diplomatic community
as well as each another.

Kluge Fellowship recipients, all of whom are within seven years of having
received the terminal advanced degree in their respective areas of study,
spend four to ten months in a collegial residential setting at the John W.
Kluge Center in the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building.

The fellows are selected by the Librarian of Congress based on the appropriateness
of their proposed research application to Library collections by LC staff
and recommended by a panel of their peers assembled by the National Endowment
of Humanities.

Below is a listing of those arriving this Summer and Autumn followed by
their academic affiliation and proposed research project:

Johanna Bockman, George Mason University, "The Socialist origins of Neoliberalism"

Elizabeth Crist, Princeton University, "Music that matters: American music
in the 1930s"

Marcy Dinius, University of Delaware, "The role of the Daguerreotype in
the literature, rhetoric, and visual culture of American abolition 1833-1860"

Monica Dominguez Torres, University of Delaware, "Armorials of the Anahuac:
The production, regulation and consumption of indigenous heraldry in 16th
century Mexico"

Petr Eltsov, Freie Universität Berlin, "A study of the Harappan society
from the point of view of archaeological data and ancient Indian sociopolitical
theory"

Christine Johnson, Washington University, "The German nation of the Holy
Roman Empire, 1440-1556"

Agnes Kefeli, Arizona State University, "The contest over education and
civic identity: Islam, Christianity, and Secularism in Post-Soviet Tatarstan"

Karen Leal, St. John’s University, New York, "The Ottoman Empire and the
Classical tradition at the turn of the 18th century"

Neil Maher, New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Ground control: An environmental
history of NASA and the Space Race"

Srividhya Swaminathan, Long Island University, "In service of commerce:
British arguments for slavery in the era before abolition, 1660-1790"

Zachary Schrag, George Mason University, "History of riot control from the
1870s to the present in America"